The People's Federation of Gibet is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by People's Representative Elsa Schlesser with an iron fist, and remarkable for its pith helmet sales, parental licensing program, and avowedly heterosexual populace. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 23.356 billion Gibetans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Berlin. The average income tax rate is 80.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Gibetan economy, worth a remarkable 6,544 trillion Staatsmarkes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 280,218 Staatsmarkes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Every day has been a surprise since weather reporters turned to consulting ancient totems for their seven-day forecasts, bargain-hunting is considered unpatriotic, urban parents tell their children that the family car went to a farm upstate, and graverobbers claim they're acting within the interest of 'scientific preservation'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gibet's national animal is the Rhineland Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Gibet is ranked 526^th in the world and 15^th in Lazarus for Most Corrupt Governments, with 632.98 kickbacks per hour.